Passenger: Was cuffed, searched over ‘appearance’

A U.S. woman said Tuesday that she endured nearly four hours in police custody that included being forced off an airplane in handcuffs, strip-searched and interrogated at Detroit’s airport on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks—all, she believes, because of her Middle Eastern appearance.

Shoshana Hebshi, 35, told The Associated Press she was one of three people removed from a Denver-to-Detroit Frontier Airlines flight after landing Sunday afternoon. Authorities say fighter jets escorted the plane after its crew reported that two people were spending a long time in a bathroom—the two men sitting next to Hebshi in the 12th row.

Hebshi said she didn’t notice how many times the men went to the bathroom. “I wasn’t keeping track,” she said.

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